[OpenIndiana-discuss] BCM 4313 Wifi

Jonathan Adams t12nslookup at gmail.com
Fri Aug 31 10:37:02 UTC 2012


IIRC the NDIS wrapper worked with _some_ broadcom drivers (generally
not the latest versions at all)

you could try finding a specific older driver for the 4313 (look
around the Linux NDIS system, some people used to post "compatible"
drivers)

also I found that some NDIS drivers only worked on 32bit ... you could
try seeing if you can work your computer in 32bit only ...

otherwise it might be worth a punt at looking at the *BSD driver, if
you have time and patience.

If you lived in the UK; I have a whole bunch of Intel wifi's from dead
Dell laptops sitting in the draw behind me ... :)

Jon

On 31 August 2012 01:00, Jim Klimov <jimklimov at cos.ru> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
>   For my new notebook I've also tried to make the NDIS driver for wifi.
> I followed links from illumos bugtracker and got to this nice guide:
>
> http://learningsolaris.com/archives/2009/03/10/opensolaris-wifi-broadcom-bcm4312-on-dell-vostro-1710/
>
> ...using drivers bcmwl5 (winxp) and bcmwl6 (win7) for my notebook,
> but ultimately attempts to add_drv or modload the binaries led to
> instant reboot of the system (likely panic, I was not with kmdb
> then).
>
> There was a little change needed for ndis-1.2.1 - the inf.c file
> defined "strcasestr" function which conflicted with system headers,
> so I commented it out.
>
> Can this be the source of my problem, or something else is likely?
>
> Suggestions (or code, or binaries ;) welcome,
> //Jim
>
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